InDesign Advanced

If you want to mas­ter design and pub­lish­ing with InDesign, this is the course you need. It helps you achieve pro­fes­sion­al results in all your print and dig­i­tal pub­li­ca­tions by teach­ing you effi­cient pro­duc­tion work­flows and advanced cre­ative tech­niques. You’ll learn how to col­lab­o­rate with­in work­groups; work effi­cient­ly with text, objects, and vari­able text; per­fect your print­ed and dig­i­tal out­put; get the most out of InDesign’s trans­paren­cy and effects tools, and much more, all with a real-world work­flow focus and hands-on instruc­tion with world-renowned InDesign guru and author Pariah Burke.

What You Will Learn

Not just how to use InDesign’s fea­tures but also why and when you should use them

Setting up press-ready pages and spreads with bleed, slug, and live areas

Placing and fit­ting images rapid­ly and accu­rate­ly

Using lay­ers, guides, grids, tem­plates, and libraries to speed the design process

Improving pro­duc­tiv­i­ty through reusable set­tings and assets

Working with InCopy to incor­po­rate col­lab­o­ra­tion

Customizing InDesign’s tools to meet the demands of dai­ly dead­lines

Exploring all that InDesign can do with text, char­ac­ters, and doc­u­ments

Revolutionizing your work­flow by using pages and sto­ries effec­tive­ly

Lesson Outline

The fol­low­ing is a list of pos­si­ble top­ics for you to use as a guide. Your course will be ful­ly cus­tomized to your unique goals, work­flow, and learn­ing pace. Because every course we teach is ful­ly cus­tomized to each group, the fol­low­ing list of top­ics to be learned should be con­sid­ered a guide­line, one that will be expand­ed or altered as required to fit your needs.